Comment Re:English to American (Score 1) 122
first floor in British English = second floor to Americans, first floor in American English = ground floor to Brits.
Does this difference also occur in elevator controls?
Comment Re:Any Earthlings using 12-year-old flash devices? (Score 1) 105
I still have my PS1 (128KB) and PS2 (8MB) memory cards.
Comment Re:War Nerd on the F-35 (Score 1) 279
Decent rant, but he contradicts his own argument about how the USAF only likes sleek, fast air-to-air planes when he rambles on about how they loved the ugly, slow, air-to-ground F-117.
Comment Re:the problem with stealth technology (Score 1) 279
Plenty of Iraq pilots got shot down by missiles far beyond the 100miles range without even ever noticing the F-15 or F-16 that shot the missiles.
Bullshit.
The only operational US missile to have sort of range was the Phoenix, which was carried by neither the F-15 nor the F-16.
It was launched exactly twice in its service history on the F-14 with no hits scored.
Comment Re:Cd of 0.36 in the 21st century??? (Score 1) 128
2 factors come to mind:
Sports oriented vehicles often sacrifice Cd to obtain downforce, since top speed is not advertised as heavily or reached as easily in many modern designs.
Short body length vehicles have less space to adopt Cd optimized forms than longer vehicles. The larger Model S has a claimed 0.24 Cd.
Julian Assange Trying To Raise Nearly $200k For a Statue of Himself 171
Rei writes Julian Assange, from his refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy, has recently taken to Twitter to try to raise nearly $200,000 for a life-size bronze statue of himself. The statue would have him standing front and center between Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning (with Manning pictured as male); the art piece would be then shipped around the world on tour.
Comment Re:the pirate bay is important (Score 1) 251
The liberal Democrats of 2000 are not the liberal Democrats of 1940. Why didn't you call them neoliberals, you moron?
The fact that the core missions of Democrats and Republicans have varied wildly over the existence of both parties just shows how limiting and misleading the whole R/D
Comment Re:I still use it (Score 2) 251
When Slashdot first gave me the option of disabling ads I had the same reaction...
"This site has ads?"
Comment Re:Good. (Score 2) 190
Did you see the AdNauseam story?
Comment Re:Why Chrome when you can use Chromium? (Score 1) 107
Google has never provided binaries on their Chromium site and that has always seemed like a very deliberate choice to deter would be users.
To run Chromium (on Windows) you must to dig through third party sites which may or may not have the latest version of Chromium available and may or may not bundle adware garbage installers.
Chrome binary download links, in contrast, are featured prominently on many sites. It is heavily advertised.
Comment Re:Hooray! (Score 1) 330
Finally get back some of the vertical space lost when every laptop and desktop downgraded to "HD".
It's time to retire this complaint because the fact is that screen resolutions have started to increase again
Your old 1200 pixel tall non-16:9 display isn't anything to brag about anymore. 1440p is quite cheap nowadays and 2160p is gaining traction.
Comment Re:In an unrelated news item... (Score 1, Informative) 334
It's among the worst nationalistic hogwash misconceptions ever, easily on par with North Korea rambling about its moon base.
Pretending that the EU is a singular nation in the way that the US or North Korea are is itself "hogwash".
Comment Re:what would be useful (Score 2) 29
And runs the comparison over several thousand files (or even hundreds of thousands, or millions)
Ah yes... the joys of Internet Art collecting!
Comment Re:Scrap heap (Score 1) 400
True, but I have never seen anyone argue that "the main advantage of Firefox has always been the plugin system".
Comment Re:Life lessons from craps (Score 2) 114
That's a halfhearted moisture application. Have her put them in her mouth instead so you get the full luck application.
